Brick Street View turns Google Maps into Lego

Brick Street View turns Google Maps into Lego
Swedish coder Einar Öberg has hacked an impressive layer on top of Google Street View inspired by Lego building blocks. Open up Brick Street View in your browser and you can tour around any part of the world as if it was constructed in Lego, complete …Read more on Digital Trends

The biggest barrier to Apple and Google's clean power plans: utilities
Despite news about Google and Apple investing in clean energy to power their huge data centers, Internet companies' renewable energy efforts are being held back by slow-moving, monopolistic utilities and sclerotic state policies, according to a report …Read more on Fortune

YouTube Engineering Chief & Google VP Venkat Panchapakesan Dies
It's a setback for Google and all YouTube product family, who lost Venkat Panchapaksan, a Google VP who led engineering for social video sharing site YouTube, on Monday. Venkat died battling cancer. Before joining Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) in 2010, …Read more on Dazeinfo (blog)